Conservative MEPs have voted against ‘country-by-country’ reporting of companies’ tax declarations, measures that will bring in greater tax transparency and assist the fight against aggressive tax avoidance.

Much of the daily drip of revelations about European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s ‘intensely relaxed’ approach to corporate tax dodging is hardly surprising. The question is whether we can use it to force Mr Juncker – whose intimate relationship with …

The Prime Minister, in his interview on the Radio 4 Today programme on Monday said that everyone should pay their taxes. This followed a question from John Humphries about “aggressive tax avoidance” – a practice the Chancellor of the Exchequer …